Criminal Law
American criminal law has greatly changed in the last few decades. Federal criminal law has expanded in such areas as white collar and corporate crime, and there has been a movement to seek jurisprudential support from cases in foreign countries. In addition, we are much better informed about the empirical consequences of criminal law rules than we were in the recent past. These developments call for a re-examination of our understanding of the nature and purpose of criminal law, from the perspective of economics and other disciplines, in an institute taught by some of the leading criminal law scholars in America.
- Optimal Penalties and Stigma, Eric B. Rasmusen, Indiana Business School
- Crime: The Empirical Evidence, James Q. Wilson, Pepperdine University, Public Policy
- The Idea of the Criminal Law, George P. Fletcher, Columbia Law School
- Crime and Federalism, Alex Tabarrok, George Mason University, Economics
- Criminal Law and Procedure, William J. Stuntz, Harvard Law School
- Corporate Criminal Liability, Jonathan R. Macey, Yale Law School
- White-Collar Crime, John C. Coffee, Columbia Law School
Eric Rasmussen is the author of Games and Information and of many articles on criminal law. James Q. Wilson is the dean of American Social Policy Scholars and a winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. His books include Thinking About Crime and On Character. George Fletcher is one of America’s leading legal theorists and the author of Rethinking Criminal Law. Alex Tabarrok is a noted public choice theorist with a special interest in criminal law. William Stuntz is one of the leading criminal law academics in America. Jonathan Macey is a noted law-and-economics scholar, and John Coffee is a leading expert on white-collar crime.